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Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role in future wireless networks, either as aerial base stations (BSs) or aerial users connected to the cellular network. In addition, integrated sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuxuan Song , Yong Zeng , Yuhang Yang , Zixiang Ren , Gaoyuan Cheng , Xiaoli Xu , Jie Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Wireless Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were introduced in the world of 4th generation networks (4G) as cellular users, and have attracted the interest of the wireless community ever since. In~5G, UAVs operate also as flying Base Stations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-07 John Buczek , Lorenzo Bertizzolo , Stefano Basagni , Tommaso Melodia

In this paper, the effective use of flight-time constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations that can provide wireless service to ground users is investigated. In particular, a novel framework for optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Powered by the advances in microelectronics technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a vast variety of services ranging from surveillance to delivery in both military and civilian domains. It is clear that a successful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Burak Ede , Serhan Yarkan , Ali Rıza Ekti , Tunçer Baykaş , Hakan Ali Çırpan , Ali Görçin

This paper studies the adaptive trajectory design of a rotary-wing UAV serving as a relay between ground nodes dispersed in a circular cell and generating uplink data transmissions randomly according to a Poisson process, and a central base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Matthew Bliss , Nicolò Michelusi

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of scenarios and applications. However, their deployment in urban areas poses important technical challenges. One of the most prominent concerns is the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Zoheb Shaikh , Sabur Baidya , Marco Levorato

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridors are sky lanes where UAVs fly through safely between their origin and destination. To ensure the successful operation of UAV corridors, beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) wireless connectivity within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Sung Joon Maeng , İsmail Güvenç

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) has recently emerged as a promising technique to provide sustainable energy supply for widely distributed low-power ground devices (GDs) in large-scale wireless networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lifeng Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Many use cases of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) require beyond visual line-of-sight (LOS) communications. Mobile networks offer wide area, high speed, and secure wireless connectivity, which can enhance control and safety of UAV…

As an autonomous vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are subjected to several challenges. One of the challenges is for UAV to be able to avoid collision. Many collision avoidance methods have been proposed to address this issue.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ahmad H. Sawalmeh , Noor Shamsiah Othman

This paper provides an overview of enhanced network services, while emphasizing on the role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as core network equipment with radio and backhaul capabilities. Initially, we elaborate the various deployment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-17 O. Bekkouche , K. Samdanis , M. Bagaa , T. Taleb

This paper investigates a new scenario of spectrum sharing between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication, in which a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary receiver (SR), in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation and trajectory design for a multi-user, multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the link capacity between a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Ata Khalili , Atefeh Rezaei , Dongfang Xu , Falko Dressler , Robert Schober

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used in a wide area of military and civilian applications such as data collection and monitoring. A reliable network for command and control, communication, and data transfer is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mohammed Gharib , Shashidhar Nandadapu , Fatemeh Afghah

Wireless communication involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to play an important role in future wireless networks. However, different from conventional terrestrial communication systems, UAVs typically have rather limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Ning Gao , Yong Zeng , Jian Wang , Di Wu , Chaoyue Zhang , Qingheng Song , Jiachen Qian , Shi Jin

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining increasing attention in wireless systems, providing new opportunities to expand the reach and improve the quality of wireless services. Despite their versatility, UAVs are limited by available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Mohammadreza Barzegaran , Hamid Jafarkhani

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji

For crowded and hotspot area, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually deployed to increase the coverage rate. In the considered model, there are three types of services for UAV assisted communication: control message, non-realtime…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Weihang Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

The rapid growth of consumer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to cellular networks as new types of user equipment, therefore…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Azade Fotouhi , Haoran Qiang , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Jinhong Yuan